Designable DNA-binding domains enable construction of logic circuits in mammalian cells

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 203-208

  Gaber, Rok ^a,b   Lebar, Tina ^a,b   Majerle, Andreja ^a,b   Šter, Branko ^c   Dobnikar, Andrej ^c   Benčina, Mojca ^a,b   Jerala, Roman ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b EN FIST Centre of Excellence   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LOGIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84894091963     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1433     Document Type: Article

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